Was assistant coach at Cal for two seasons, associate head coach at USF for two seasons, assistant coach at Columbia University for a season, assistant coach at theWNBA Atlantic Dream for a season, and the head coach at Warner Pacific College for seven seasons where she led the Knights to their first conference championship in school history.

Has been the Chief Development officer for the Cal Alumni Association, the Athletic Director at the University of San Francisco, the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Operations at Stanford, and a TV broadcaster for women's basketball.

Earned an MBA at Stanford.

Is married to Anthony Mann, a former USF basketball player. They have a daughter, Quinci.

Was a champion javelin thrower. She was the Western Collegiate Athletic Association javelin champion, named Stanford’s Female Athlete of the Year, and was a member of the U.S. Olympic track and field team in the javelin in 1980.

Is part of a three-generation Stanford athletic family  her father, Mervin "Bud" Stromsmoe, ('43) was a catcher for the Stanford baseball team; her husband, Joel Erickson ('77), was a wide receiver on the Stanford football team and an infielder on the baseball team; their son, Kirk Erickson ('10), was a catcher for the Stanford baseball team.

Now spends time with her nieces, nephews, great nephews, and volunteering.
Summers are spent at their long time summer cabin at Huntington Lake (south of Yosemite) where she is becoming active in the forest planning of the area.

Worked at Permanente Medical Group from 1989 until her retirement in 2012. Main interests were weight gain during pregnancy and menopausal medicine.

Worked at Kaiser-Anaheim from 1982-89, where she taught OB-GYN residents as well as seeing patients . Received several teaching awards.

Graduated from Stanford in 1974, got her MD at St Louis University Medical School in 1978, completed her residency in OB-GYN at UC Irvine in 1982.

Of those two years of pre-Title IX basketball, Katie says:

Our practices were in Encina Gym at dinner time - when the men weren’t using the gym. In order to be “official”, we needed a coach. The only one, bless her heart, who volunteered was Shirley Schoof, the women’s field hockey coach. She knew NOTHING about basketballball but showed up at our games to make it official. She basically allowed Terry and some of the others to coach ourselves. Paula Johnson was the other center, besides me. We were horrible – mainly because most of us had played the old “2 offense, 2 defensive players and 1 rover” basketball and now we played traditional 5 full court players. We had no jerseys, but were told to wear white T shirts (with our red pennys) and black shorts/pants. I think we played Cal Berkeley, Santa Clara and maybe SJS or Hayward.

Played basketball and volleyball only from 1971-1973 because she was pre-med and had chemistry labs that profs wouldn't let her miss for practice

Transferred to Stanford from the University of Oregon
at the beginning of her sophomore year, along with her roommate Terry Borchers who had been notified that Stanford needed to form a women’s basketball team to satisfy requirements of Title IX.